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Easy Homemade Name Puzzle

May 26, 2014 by Sheryl Cooper

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One of the first words a preschooler often recognizes is his name. This is why we do a lot of name recognition activities in our classroom! Each year we create an easy homemade name puzzle that we use during small groups. At the end of the school year, these can be taken home. They would be a great addition to summer enrichment activities.
 easy name puzzle for preschoolers
 

 

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Easy Homemade Name Puzzle

We have small groups at the very end of our preschool day.  We break 16 children into 4 small groups. During that time we have 3 teachers available, so each teacher takes a group. The fourth group independently works on puzzles or other manipulatives. Small groups is short, around 10 minutes, but allows us time to get to know the children and their skills on a more personal level

 

What you will need for this literacy activity:

 

  • Some sort of card stock (thick paper)
  • Marker to write the names

 

 

Preschool Literacy Activity
 

Assembling this activity: 

 

  • Write the child’s name on 2 pieces of card stock.
  • Leave one whole, and cut the other one between each letter.
Preschool Literacy Activity
 

 

The activity:

 

Place the whole strip and the pieces of strip at the table and invite the preschoolers to put the separate pieces together to make their names.
Preschool Literacy Activity

 






While many of our preschoolers by this point knew most of the letters in their names, it was more of a challenge to put them in proper order.

 

 

name puzzle
Using the whole strip as a guide, they were able to put their names together.
 Preschool Literacy Activity
 Preschool Literacy Activity
 Preschool Literacy Activity
Once they master this, the next step would be to try putting the letters together without being able to refer to the whole name strip.
A great way to learn the order of letters in their names!

 

Easy Name Puzzle for Preschoolers

 

More literacy activities:

literacy games for preschoolers     preschool alphabet sensory play      Learning the Alphabet - Activities for Preschoolers - Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds

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About Sheryl Cooper

Sheryl Cooper is the founder of Teaching 2 and 3 Year Olds, a website full of activities for toddlers and preschoolers. She has been teaching this age group for over 20 years and loves to share her passion with teachers, parents, grandparents, and anyone with young children in their lives.

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  1. Tisungane Kumpumula

    September 9, 2014 at 3:31 pm

    I find the name puzzle to be helpful! I will definately do it with my new students! I hope it will work! Sooo helpful

    • Sheryl

      September 10, 2014 at 5:05 am

      Let me know how it goes!

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